George W Bush's second term

The Presidency of George W . Bush

Following the tragic events of 9/11, when al Qaeda terrorists crashed three airplanes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Americans turned their frightened eyes toward George W. Bush to see just what kind of president he would be. Most people weren't sure what they would find. The new president was still hard to define. His campaign in 2000 had sent mixed signals on a variety of issue...

The 2007 George W. Beadle Medal. Robert K. Herman.

George W. Bush Executive Order 13455, June 2007

On 20 January 2001, Republican George W. Bush [6] was sworn in as the forty-third president of the United States, replacing Democrat William J. Clinton. During his eight years in office, Bush issued many executive orders, often altering previous policy. By signing Order 13435 on 22 June 2007, he changed how stem cell research would be performed in America. The Bush administration was influenced...

Hollywood Post-9/11 Alien Films: Recontextualization of George. W. Bush's Discourse

The widely shocking attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11 was interpreted differently by various institutions worldwide, ranging from America's legitimate motive to begin a 'war on terror' to defend her 'very freedom', to a pretext for Bush administration to pursue G. H. W. Bush's temptation for 'a new world order'. Various institutions, therefore, made use of their...

Identifying the patient in George W Lambert's Chesham Street

This paper takes as its focus one of the Edwardian period's most dramatic and little-understood paintings of a medical examination: George Washington Lambert's Chesham Street (1910). The painting shows an upper-class male patient lifting his shirt to reveal a muscular torso for examination by the doctor in the scene and the viewers outside it. The subject of a medical examination, I argue, legi...